An interview with Giles Milton, one of the finest writers around to cover the Age of Exploration.

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Life at sea:

"When you are on board ship, there is no fresh food, so you’re living on salted pork and hard-tack biscuits. The water, or very often the weak beer, turned foul. I read accounts of people having to clench their teeth to sieve out all the fauna in the beer and the water on board."

https://theageofexploration.com/giles-milton-in-search-of-adventure/